Plug into some good quality speakers, turn up the volume. I've begun listening to music lying on the floor with one speaker on either side of my head, and am adamant it's the best way aside from mega headphones to absorb music. (The visuals, though nice are entirely unrelated to the purpose of this). Close your eyes and listen. Feel.
There is something interesting in this song, I don't know what yet but I think it could be important to us as experience designers to find out.
Anything?
As a narrative there isn't much going on, and admittedly it comes to a rather untimely and abrupt ending. It is, as a song unsatisfying but for me there is something much more powerful. There is a deep and kind of uncomfortable murmuring in the sound. The sound of being able to feel your insides. Vibrations. Layers of mixed up rhythms and beats that pull into a suffocating chest tightening bass, that makes me feel even now 10 minutes after listening, a bit nauseous. I almost turn it off every time. I'm quite sure this won't happen to everybody, but I'm also sure that it isn't just me.
I heard this song the the other week whilst lost in an internet wandering and it stuck me as one of those song that stays lodged in your sub surface being for years. A little reading led me to an article on Sean Paul's song Temperature causing a girl to lapse into epileptic seizures. The article questions whether the seizures are related to the music's rhythm generating a pattern of rhythmic activity in the brain, and that rhythm being similar to a negative pattern that your brain has a tendency toward, this could, the article proposes cause the brain to create a particular associations and actions with a type of music.
Here I guess begins a new blip on my radar, music that makes the heart quiver, it began with the Opera Project earlier this year, and remains an unsolved mystery.
Here I guess begins a new blip on my radar, music that makes the heart quiver, it began with the Opera Project earlier this year, and remains an unsolved mystery.
